College Speaker Calls Students Immature, Arroganthttp://www.businessinsider.com/college-speaker-calls-students-immature-arrogant-2014-5/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Fri, 09 Dec 2016 23:33:35 -0500Associated Presshttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/537a5ca76bb3f7b547ea9728Reality ISMon, 19 May 2014 15:33:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/537a5ca76bb3f7b547ea9728
yeah so arrogant to expect a living wage rather than slave work for nothing unlike the almighty president whos in the good ol boys club and gets overpaid for doing nothing.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/537a5321eab8ea9162c2b5caName not (Required)Mon, 19 May 2014 14:53:21 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/537a5321eab8ea9162c2b5ca
all browne did was speak the truth...generations keep getting worse and worse...i'm 30 and a lot of the people of my generation embarrass me, and then i see them "raising" their kids and it's a shame, not to mention the kids who are coming out of high school and college now are absolutely dreadful...and it will just keep getting worsehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/537a250eeab8ea123ac2b5cadale robertsMon, 19 May 2014 11:36:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/537a250eeab8ea123ac2b5ca
Kudos to the 40+3 and boos to the drooling old men who hold the keys to the kingdom. I'm grateful the Mr. Bowen is no longer in a position to squelch the rebellious nature of our immature students. We need these challenges. If they are not presented in the mature manner of a college president... duh, get a clue. There is far too little poking the beast by today's students. This academia... challenge everything because this is the time and place. When you graduate your actions are tempered by the real world impacts on real people. If Birgeneau had any balls he would have welcomed the opportunity to engage. If Bowen cared a vibrant collegiate culture he would have cheered the protesters instead of pouting about the lack of homage for his peer. BTW in terms of age and ethnicity I am one of the drooling old men.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379f7f1ecad04a73aea9725Downhill from hereMon, 19 May 2014 08:24:17 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379f7f1ecad04a73aea9725
Yes, but it's those very same students of the 1960's who now as leaders are taking the US in the wrong directionhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379e994eab8eac964c2b5cakenneth.m.burgessMon, 19 May 2014 07:23:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379e994eab8eac964c2b5ca
We are in the "Culture" of minority rules. If a small group of people object to something, their voice become the dominate voice. Wake up USA!!!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379c637eab8ea645ec2b5d1snedlyMon, 19 May 2014 04:52:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379c637eab8ea645ec2b5d1
What you meant to say was movies documenting the US destabilizing SE Asia with over 2 million Vietnamese killed and making an opening for the Khmer Rouge to kill a million plus Cambodians. The US used it's Monroe Doctrine to keep out foreigners so that it could rape and pillage at will the countries south of it's borders using and supporting corrupt dictators as it's instruments. Over the years millions died with most of the rest condemned to poverty as the US puppets, most overthrowing elected governments with US help, oppressed and pillaged their people thus filling their bank accounts and the coffers of US corporations. Most of those "communist" insurgents that were killed with US support were just poor people tired of getting the shaft. Venezuela is suffering due to Chavez's incompetence and the fact the US has been trying to overthrow him for over 10 years. The CIA deposed Allende in Chile thus bringing on the 25 year brutal military dictatorship of Pinochet. This is just the tip of the iceberg of US rape and pillage south of the border.
The US has had sanctions on Cuba for 50 years. Since 1950 for North Korea. They are both still there. So is communist China and Russia, the new rising powers.
Russia absorbs Crimea at popular request and the US is outraged. The same US that sanctioned and invaded Iraq resulting in over 1 million civilian deaths, many of them children, and millions more fleeing and the country. Possible civil war. Under Saddam there was no Al Qaida in Iraq. Now they hold many cities and western Iraq. The US sanctions Iran yet nothing is said about the CIA overthrowing the elected government and installing the brutal Shah setting the stage for the popular return of Kohmeni. The US sponsored uprisings in Syria and Libya and hundreds of thousands have died. Today a coup was led by a Libyan general who lived just down the street from the CIA since fleeing Libya in the 1990's. Libya has been on the verge of civil war since the war ended and this may finally cause it. In the southern Libyan deserts there was the AQM, Al Qaida of the Magreb, that was a bunch of clowns playing cowboy. Since the fall of Libya they have gained huge caches of arms and recruits and are branching out into Africa.
The US supported the invasion of Rwanda in 1990 by their hand picked man Paul Kagame that turned into a civil war. In 1994 UN commanders in Rwanda asked for more troops months before the genocide. The US vetoed the action and did everything it could at the UN to support Kagame. It resulted in the genocide. Shortly after Kagame ascended to the top and butchered, first in Rwanda and now in the Congo.
The greatest social disease are those who cherry pick history to puff themselves up and shout others down. This isn't a Packers vs Bears game. It's real life and people are dying. Sure Stalin killed millions, 80 years ago. The US has caused millions to die, millions to live in oppressed poverty, and millions more as refugees from the wars they have instigated, and the toll is still rising. Take off your cheerleader pompoms are read your history.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379bc62ecad04b660ea9725playing in trafficMon, 19 May 2014 04:10:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379bc62ecad04b660ea9725
But, but, but...they have cell phones and fakebook and instagram. Shouldn't those three technological "advancements" prove that the current generation is well beyond the educational accomplishments from someone in the 1960's?
Isn't the current generation's creativity a guarantee of future "production" (work related)?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379a9c9ecad04f511a345f8Well, one can hardly argueMon, 19 May 2014 02:50:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379a9c9ecad04f511a345f8
College students ARE immature and arrogant, almost by definition. They have no idea how little they know, and they believe profoundly in their own wisdom. That's been true for generations.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53798f92eab8eaa723445bf2Lex MagnusMon, 19 May 2014 00:58:58 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53798f92eab8eaa723445bf2
Robert Birgeneau is scum, and so is William Bowen. Allowing Birgeneau to address the students would be akin to inviting Adolf Hitler or Joseph Goebbels.
People like Birgeneau belong in prison for their support of fascist tactics on their campus.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379702469beddff2983710dhoyafordSun, 18 May 2014 22:44:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379702469beddff2983710d
The greatest outrage is that is the amount of press this stupid story is getting....(from BI, WashP, PhillyI)
As someone who was in attendance, I thought it made the whole proceeding a little more entertaining than it otherwise would have been and probably a good deal more memorable.
Cheers 2014!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53796dc169beddf51683710fRoger C.Sun, 18 May 2014 22:34:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53796dc169beddf51683710f
Yup, you hit the nail on the head completely. These people are ridiculous. You forgot about how they are ruining the American school system. I used to work as a teacher, and what I saw in inner-city schools everyday, if aired on TV, would absolutely stun many people. It's unreal how the government and media refuses to expose what is going on and take the wayward children and their families to task for their behavior. We have serious problems with budgets in many areas. I would seriously suggest cutting funding to many schools by getting rid of the children that do not care to be in school and learn. We could also get rid of school sports, which is a major drain on school funds. I can't understand why no politician has seriously tried to reform schools, instead of just privatizing them.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53796cf86bb3f7ce6da345f3Roger C.Sun, 18 May 2014 22:31:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53796cf86bb3f7ce6da345f3
He's right. I went to university in the early 2000's. I hate to admit it, it was in the back of my mind when I was younger, but now, I realize that several of these universities should not even be accredited. I saw several students, and this was an academically selective university, supposedly, that were borderline illiterate, yet passing their classes. How did I know this? I saw students from Detroit public schools who wrote papers that were barely legible, grammatically. I saw some who could barely speak a sentence properly that got into the business school. Yet I would get B's and C's, even when I gave professors and graduate student instructors exactly what they wanted on the exams and papers. It made no sense. I really do think a lot of grades were based on favoritism, if not rigged for certain people. I know one guy that basically told me he was banging his Organic Chem GSI and that she was helping him pass. What is going on in our universities today is pretty disgusting. Lots of well-educated, intelligent students are getting shafted because they go to top universities, are forced by weeder classes into getting degrees that make them unemployable and get shunted to the wayside. It's a little ridiculous.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53796a5aeab8ea3120445bf6donpmitchellSun, 18 May 2014 22:20:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53796a5aeab8ea3120445bf6
He called the protesters immature, not the students in general. That includes the three professors who probably instigated it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/537968b26bb3f7a05fa345f5jamesxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSun, 18 May 2014 22:13:06 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/537968b26bb3f7a05fa345f5
Progressives and leftists have always been the most totalitarian and violent.
The communist destruction of the 20th century will be studied for a thousand years as perhaps the greatest social disease every to inflict itself upon humanity.
Still, it goes on as we see Hollywood make dozens of films about the horrors of the Nazis - but not an inch of film about the murderous Stalin, Mao, Khmer Rouge, North Vietnamese, Castro etc..
Even now as we witness the collapse of Venezuela, they remain silent.
Oh 'communism was never really tried' ....
Sure, except every time it is, it ends up in mass murder ... funny, that ...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/537964436bb3f73450a345f5get off my lawnSun, 18 May 2014 21:54:11 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/537964436bb3f73450a345f5
every generation sucks except mine!
sincerely, card-carrying member of the Grumpy Old Man Foundation.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53796247eab8ea507d445bf7NameSun, 18 May 2014 21:45:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53796247eab8ea507d445bf7
'Cuse me, EMPLOY some people. Douche.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53795b6969bedd775783710dPCSun, 18 May 2014 21:16:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53795b6969bedd775783710d
Relax.. the student did exactly what you are suggesting. They sent the message to "fuck off". Just in a way more sophisticated way than you can demonstrate expressing yourself.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/537959b4eab8eae45e445bf8do something with your lifeSun, 18 May 2014 21:09:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/537959b4eab8eae45e445bf8
You should start learning what's wrong with "employee some people" before dispensing advice and judgements.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379585c69bedd554c83710dNameSun, 18 May 2014 21:03:24 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379585c69bedd554c83710d
I can't stand to listen to another person describe themselves as an "activist" or hear someone protest about something, etc. You want to do something? Go start a company, employee some people, build something, and do something with your life. The US has loads of spoiled brats that think it is their obligation to blather on and on about every and all perceived injustice, most of which aren't.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/537957c1ecad043a78a345f7Ted V TranSun, 18 May 2014 21:00:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/537957c1ecad043a78a345f7
Liberal Americahttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53794eb569bedd8d2483710ftail between his legsSun, 18 May 2014 20:22:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53794eb569bedd8d2483710f
Some people should go with his tail between his legs - the students are right about that.
America and the world would be much better place if people were less willing to put up with bullshits.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379491b69bedd731183710dAstropigSun, 18 May 2014 19:58:19 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379491b69bedd731183710d
There is a whole set of kids that have grown from being unaware to political consciousness during the Obama years.Those kids are in large measure,arrogant,self centered,selfish assbags.They take a cue from dear leader and just demand this and demand that rather than show a modicum of respect and dignity.The day will come when they get the same medicine that they are dishing out and it will be fun to watch.
Apologize? Payments to "victims"? Write a letter explaining what her learned? I'd tell these PC assholes to fuck off .http://www.businessinsider.com/c/537941d969bedd1d6583710fHistorySun, 18 May 2014 19:27:21 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/537941d969bedd1d6583710f
It's a start. But today's students are still weak compared to those of the 1960s. Perhaps it will take a draft in order to get these people involved like students were back then. All I know is that things in the US are not headed in the right direction and there is a veritable silence here. No one is saying a damn word.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379389069beddcf4983710fAhYes...Sun, 18 May 2014 18:47:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5379389069beddcf4983710f
...our leaders of tomorrow. I'm glad I'm old.